DOORS @ 7:30 / SHOWS @ 8PM, UNLESS POSTED OTHERWISE
PROSPECT LEFFERTS GARDENS • BROOKLYN
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2025
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Fri03Jan2025
Hubby Jenkins • Hannah Lee Thompson • Ali Dineen Jan 3
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation
Hubby Jenkins is a talented multi-instrumentalist who endeavors to share his love and knowledge of old-time American music. Born and raised in Brooklyn he delved into his southern roots, following the thread of African American history that wove itself through America’s traditional music forms. As an integral member of the Carolina Chocolate Drops and later Rhiannon Giddens band, Hubby has performed at festivals and venues around the world, earning himself both Grammy and Americana award nominations. Today he spreads his knowledge and love of old-time American music through his dynamic solo performances and engaging workshops.
Hannah Lee Thompson is a musician and an organizer based in Baltimore and New York. She grew up in Brooklyn, performing frequently at the Jalopy Theatre and other local venues around New York. As a kid, she studied clawhammer banjo from Eli Smith of the Downhill Strugglers and Brooklyn Folk Festival. In 2019, she moved to Baltimore and worked doing live sound at Creative Alliance and Ottobar, while continuing to perform her own original music. In 2021, she played the lead role in the feature film Hannah Ha Ha, which went on to win Best Narrative Feature and Best Acting Performance at Slamdance 2022, and premiered in theaters as a New York Times Critic’s Pick in February of 2023.
Ali Dineen is a songwriter, visual artist and teacher born and raised in Queens. Ali has performed at the Museum of Art and Design, the Caramoor American Roots Music Festival, the American Folk Art Museum, and the Brooklyn Folk Festival, among other wonderful venues, and was awarded the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation Residency in 2020. Ali is also the music director for local puppet troupe extraordinaire The Boxcutter Collective, arranges music and sings with Reverend Billy & the Stop Shopping Choir, and is part of a duet with the inimitable Feral Foster. Ali released a third album, Hold On, in 2020, and is currently working on a new piece about Joan of Arc.
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Sat04Jan2025
sold out: Aggie Miller • Wendy Eisenberg • Tōth Jan 4
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $22.00 adv/ $25.00 door*** SOLD OUT! ***
Aggie Miller is a 4 piece band from New York. The music is kind of like Sondheim, kind of like St Vincent. Mostly she just really hopes you know what she means by all of it.
Wendy Eisenberg is an improvising guitarist, banjo player, songwriter, composer, and poet based in Western Massachusetts. Using the languages of free jazz, extreme metal, art song, and Tin Pan Alley, her music explores the questions surrounding the linguistic, representation, and technical demands placed on the body. This evening’s performance spotlights material in the language of the album she released on VDSQ, a label dedicated to the future of acoustic solo guitar music. Her guitar music has as much to do with the histories and languages of the guitar that she leaves out as it does with the languages she invents. This program of solo guitar music will integrate some of her sung material, but will primarily live in the rarefied, aesthetic world that the “Its Shape Is Your Touch” record introduces to you.
Tōth is a project of Brooklyn multi-instrumentalist songwriter Alex Toth, known for collaborating and writing with Kimbra, Rubblebucket, Cuddle Magic and others. As Tōth, he presents his most vulnerable songs and performances yet — while also adding trumpet and guitar.
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Sun05Jan2025
Martina Liviero with Kevin Hays • Asher Kurtz Jan 5
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 adv / $20.00 at door
Martina Liviero is a singer songwriter from Argentina, currently based in New York City. Her sound effortlessly blends the complexity and sophistication of South American songwriting, with contemporary chamber music, experimental folk and jazz. Liviero’s music and arrangements were performed by internationally renowned ensembles, such as the New York Philharmonic and the Army Jazz Ambassadors Big Band. She was the recipient of the 2020 and 2019 ASCAP Young Jazz Composer Awards and the 2019 JEN Young Jazz Composer Award. Martina holds a B.M in Jazz Composition from Berklee College of Music, where she was awarded the Latin American Tour Scholarship.Grammy Award-winning jazz pianist, composer, and singer/songwriter Kevin Hays’s many recordings have received critical acclaim from The New York Times, Downbeat Magazine and Jazz Times. Kevin has recorded with Chris Potter, Bill Stewart, Joshua Redman, Jeff Ballard, Nicholas Payton, and Al Foster, among many others. Notable collaborations include a piano duo project with Brad Mehldau, world tours with James Taylor, Sonny Rollins, John Scofield, Joe Henderson, and Roy Haynes. In addition, Kevin has become increasingly known as a gifted and expressive singer/songwriter. In 2015 he released the widely lauded recording New Day (Sunnyside), on which he performed his own songs.Old Feels is the solo project of guitarist and producer Asher Kurtz. Folk songs, IDM beats , cassette tape loops, and found sound sample chops create a comfy bed of nostalgic ambient texture and deep groove. His recent album “Each Day” set to be out later this year, reflects on and explores the microcosms of childhood and how those memories impact everyday life.
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Thu09Jan2025
Quartet Mirage • Caroline Kuhn • Hayden Arp and Griffin Jennings Jan 9
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation
Quartet Mirage is a collective that honors the classical tradition by celebrating living composers and fusing popular music with chamber music. The members of quartet mirage perform extensively together and separately across the Tri-State area both as a quartet and as featured strings for other groups spanning all genres and instrumentations.Caroline Kuhn is a New York City native. Her introspective songs on guitar and banjo become bangers for the ages when backed by her powerful rock band. Most recently, she released her debut album, Be Something, showcasing her truly singular soprano and unwavering degree of command as a songwriter.Hayden Arp and Griffin Jennings are songwriters and producers based in Vienna and New York, respectively. They are longtime collaborators who met studying composition at Oberlin college and have been working on their song cycle album, The Towers we Lived In, since then. The album, out this January, deals with childhood, family, and the inevitable loss of innocence we all face as we grow older. -
Fri10Jan2025
Alexia Avina • Kitba • Alara Jan 10
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation
Alexia Avina is an experimental ambient folk artist based in Queens who blends minimalism and restraint with lush sonic landscapes and ethereal melodic hooks.Kitba, the eponymous musical project of singer-songwriter and harpist Rebecca Kitba Bryson El-Saleh, is the culmination of a lifetime of musical and artistic development. Based in Brooklyn, El-Saleh makes exhilarating, deeply personal music that explores the nuances of interiority, self-acceptance, communication, mental health, and love. Kitba’s debut self-titled album, produced by El-Saleh and Zubin Hensler, was released in July 2023 via Ruination Record Co.
Alara is a singer-songwriter and producer based in Brooklyn. Her debut EP, recorded in Toronto and Philadelphia, is set to be released early 2025. The past 12 months have proven to be a transformative period for Alara’s writing and artistry, bringing her back to her indie-folk and singer-songwriter roots.
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